GitHub Constellation Los Angeles

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Octokit – Your GitHub Platform Toolkit

Gregor Martynus, Octokit

Everything you see on GitHub.com, you can do with GitHub’s APIs – and more. The same way adjust our terminals and code editors to our liking, GitHub allows us to automate recurring processes around collaborating on GitHub. In this talk, I will talk about the JavaScript Octokit, a set of tools for JavaScript and Node developers to easily integrate with and build upon GitHub’s APIs. You will learn how to automate common workflows and how to build custom user interfaces to help with your day-to-day work on GitHub.

Ways to Welcome Newcomers to Your Open Source Project

Evelyn Masso, Carbon Five

This talk will cover some methods project maintainers and contributors can use to welcome newcomers to open source projects. Aspects like interpersonal interactions, documentation, and the code itself impact newcomers’ ability and desire to become members of open source projects and communities. Throughout the talk I will share some of my experience in the communities around p5.js and Write/Speak/Code LA.

Git branching best practices

Kevin Goslar, Originate

I am the lead developer for Git Town, an open-source high-level CLI for Git that uses the Github API. It fits seamlessly into Github-based workflows, automates typical tasks like creating, updating, and shipping feature branches, and minimizes merge conflicts. It's gaining in popularity, we got 1500 Github stars already!

Keeping Open Source Projects Healthy

Zeke Sikelianos, GitHub

Electron is a popular open source project with a community of hundreds of maintainers. This talk will cover the practices used by our team to help newcomers feel welcome, the organizational structure we use to give collaborators a sense of ownership, and the automation tools we build to free up humans to work on the fun stuff.

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Ravi Gadhia, GitHub

Open Source and Standards Collaboration

Craig Northway, Qualcomm Technologies Inc

Recently there is a significant interest and need for Standards Defining Organizations (SDOs) to also participate in Open Source projects. Both communities need to learn how to work together to advance the pace of innovation and provide more value for the entire ecosystem. SDOs and Standards Engineers need to learn about Open Source community norms and collaboration methods. Open Source projects can standard to benefit from the governance models and long term strategy that SDOs bring to the technology sector. This presentation will discuss the benefits of a collaborative hybrid approach and also provide ideas on how to enable SDOs, Standards Engineers, Open Source Program Offices and Open Source Projects to work together effectively.

Never feel `/home` sick: how GitHub is unlocking mobility for developers

Kathy Simpson, GitHub

In this session we will discuss how GitHub is building tools that developers can use to interface with their teams while they are not at their dedicated development machines. We talk about design thinking for mobile applications, GitHub’s product principles for the mobile project and demonstrate how we are helping teams get unblocked, organized and shipping.

GitHub for Documentation

Liz McFarland, Johnson Controls

This talk will explain how crucial it is to use version control for technical literature. Using case examples, I’ll explain how the Johnson Controls Simi Valley branch uses GitHub to track documentation, facilitate document reviews, and automate technical publication outputs. I will elaborate on why using GitHub for technical literature has been great for treating documentation as code, for facilitating automation, and freedom of collaboration between multiple technical writers.

Coffee Break

Everything you never wanted to know about Cryptojacking

Rafael Ferreira, New Relic

Coming Soon

Running an entire company on Github

Kevin Goslar, Originate

Running a company is not unlike running a project. We should use the same tools and processes for both. This talk presents how Originate is using Github instead of email for running the company.

InnerSource at JPL: Collaboration around software in a science, technology, engineering and research enterprise

David Mittman, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

In 2013, a number of employees at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory believed that the tools that were so successfully supporting the open source community could have significant benefits for our software development community at JPL. Core to this belief was the theory that the JPL software development community was similar to the open source community in the way it operates. This theory has been put into practice in a number of companies, and is known as InnerSource. In this talk, I'll describe why JPL cares about InnerSource, how we're going about championing InnerSource on Lab, and the progress to date.

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